Minnesota USA-1958: Purple Irises Swaying in the Breeze

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Minnesota

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Purple Irises Swaying in the Breeze — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of vibrant purple irises swaying gently in a breeze. The flowers, with their rich violet petals and green foliage, fill the foreground against a softly blurred background of a wire fence and distant trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color tones, film grain, and subtle scratches, evoking a nostalgic, pastoral atmosphere from a mid-century American garden.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124863928

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Minnesota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Minnesota garden, nature, and seasonal cutaway requests in documentary, education, museum, or period-set productions.
Period detail: The close garden view may show a mid-century home landscape with purple irises, green lawn, wire fencing, and distant trees.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, lingering close to flowers as they move in the breeze rather than presenting a formal botanical study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include purple iris blossoms, green leaves, lawn, wire fence, fence posts, pale sky, distant trees, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight scratches, color variation, and handheld framing that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a quiet nature insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ornamental garden flowers in a Minnesota home-movie setting without showing people, signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Minnesota garden footage, purple irises in wind, vintage home movie flowers, and 1950s American backyard nature.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Minnesota home-movie material, then vintage garden or flower cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing purple irises swaying near a wire fence, with green lawn and distant trees behind them. — Purple irises fill the foreground beside a wire fence in a garden setting.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame with purple iris blooms in soft focus, backed by a wire fence, grass, and trees. — Soft-focus iris blossoms stand near fencing, with garden greenery beyond.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing purple irises moving in a breeze, with a wire fence and green lawn in the background. — Iris blooms and leaves shift in the breeze beside a garden fence.

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame of purple irises close to the camera, with wire fencing, grass, and distant trees visible. — Close iris blossoms frame the garden fence and greenery in the background.

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